ちょっと、怖い

so tomorrow marks the start of another adventure.
an adventure that will begin with me waiting at the airport for a very long time before someone comes to pick me up because the flight is too early. so yeah.
and i still want to do some course transfer stuff, confirm credits (very important piece of shit that needs to be done) and get in touch with bliss.

so things to do:
1) find the post office
2) find my lover in japan; daiso!
3) get the phone
4) confirm my stupid courses :(
5) get a map of ikkebukuro
6) settle logistics such as buying shampoo and soap and tissue paper
7) and hangers, cannot forget hangers

*dies*

i really hope things go smoothly. 今はドキドキしてる。

PLEASE let me remember to blog every day. PLEASE! and i need to remember my CIP!! My erm...how many hours again? I think it's 10. yeah.

Hope the school's different from SMU. Hope it isn't too mugger-like. Hope i won't try comparisons with Yamasa, because that is a holiday and this is school.

Hope things go well. *prays really really hard*

so the weekend was spent mostly on a bus headed to various places. three actually; tsumago, matsumoto and nagano and the best takeaway from the trip is that snow fights are absolutely fun!! was utterly trashed by jack but oh well, i would like to play in the snow again~!

The onsen wasn't anything much to die for either way; odaiba's still one of the best i've been to.

things i've accomplished on this trip:
ate my takoyaki!!
my ramen!!
fantastic miso ice cream. *kyah* that's at the geyser place.
saw ice sculptures i thought i could only see in harebin, china. *boy, the snow slide was uber fun!!*
threw stones on a frozen lake at the geyser place. guess what, stones play music on frozen lakes. pretty.
walked with snow shoes and got pelted with snowballs.
still is unable to make snowballs.

on another note, karaoke on friday was uber fun! *kya~* of course, having eye candy always helps.

is freakin' cold!! needs to get thermals!

on a better note, we going on a trip to nagano snow mountains and what not. whoo hoo!

cold, cold, cold.

i somehow appreciate singapore's weather now.

streets in japan are scary, no matter how many cars there may be.

it's 6.30 in the evening and it looks like 8.30, 9 pm Singapore time. and there aren't any streetlamps around. on the way back from school, we got lost, predictably. kinda. my bad actually, but really, the streets look all the same here. and the buildings - grey. so we're like...oh no, please don't let the shit hit the fan!!

but dinner was great. ex, but great. and we found a gem in the form of a supermarket. there's 10yen carrots, beat that!! but after school ended, the stock had ran out and we were too late. *pout*

accomodation was ex, big time! and on the weekend, we need to go get sis's dictionary in Nagoya city which is another horror story altogether because that's a 25-30min walk and we got lost in 5mins, 10mins walks. damn. we need another map. the one we have now is falling apart. three guesses as to why.

probably the highlight of orientation was the interview test, which went by with lots of eh and uhs. written test was a long long horror; half the time, i was counting how many questions left.

i hope we get more time to explore the city but it seems that we can only do so on weekends coz school ends pretty late and we need to get back by 6 if we wanna get back before dark. then there's cooking and studying to do. PLUS, my rikkyo exchange stuff, which i really don't wanna talk about. what's gonna happen to my muse?

on a much lighter note, i met 2 cute guys today! one at school and the other at the 100yen shop. perhaps we need to frequent that place more? haha.

i wonder how mothers feel when they send their sons off to war. i wonder how the sons felt. because really, the glass at the departure hall is really more than just a glass, just as my friend said. it's symbolic. so close yet so far. untouchable. it's like when two lovers try to touch, unbreakable glass between them. cue the angst. and yes, this is when i start getting all excited about my muse and inspiration.

so anyway, today has been a terribly tough day and i'm falling dead asleep on my feet as i type. perhaps i should go bathe after this instead of after dinner because really, i don't feel hungry despite the many trips to 100 yen shops, convenience shops and supermarkets sis and i made today. i feel like i have walked a lot. but then again, it seems as though i haven't, which really, is quite odd.

the plane trip was surprisingly fast, 5 hours plus instead of the full 6 and compared to US, it seems like a breeze. made friends with the lady sitting beside me at the window seat; loads of stories to tell about the world and places to visit in Japan. we exchanged contacts so maybe we'll have the chance to meet up, which is cool because that means less chances of getting lost! haha.

when we reached the hostel, the first impression i got was that it was dingy and you know, the whole ew factor. perhaps we've equilibrated with things here because suddenly, it doesn't seem too bad. and after doing all that shopping for laundry baskets, tissue boxes, pillow cases, plates and all the little details we don't often appreciate until we realize it's NOT THERE. So yeah, that's shopping for us. Found the phone shops in the process, which was cool.

What wasn't was the fact that my feet kept eating my socks! which really, sucks. Wanted to take more photos but after a white, i was pretty much dragging my feet and getting lost around the neighbourhood to care too much. Interestingly enough, the picturerisque (damn the spelling!) in jdoramas are very real. walking around the neighbourhood makes me feel as though I'M in the drama! haha. and there were ducks!! *quack*

but really laundry has to be delayed from once a week to once fornightly because 8 bucks for washing, excluding drying is really freakin' ex for the amount we're washing. Gotta do some cost analysis to see if we should get more towels instead because i can't survive 14 days on 3 towels, that's for sure and i'm not too sure if we can hand wash those properly, unlike socks and the like which are actually small.

man, i wanna go crash but i got a test tomorrow and i'm half dead so uh.

wish me luck! plus, tomorrow's thursday, which means DISCOUNT at supermarket from 2pm onwards! kudos to the friendly hostel mates for that info. (the kitchen here is really dirty at first glance by the way. haven't explored it much, and neither have i explored the shower.)

So like, it's three hours before sis and i leave the house and head to the airport, which is like...whoa! time passes so fast it's not even funny! just a while ago, i was still like... whoo hoo!! My jap exams are over and i've got exchange scholarship stuff to settle.

having been through a whole day of packing, the freak out period is long gone and all that is left is excitement brimming beneath the surface of my skin. i feel like crying, laughing, jumping and dancing all at the same time. thankfully, i'm not like a teacher i know who has to go to the washroom everytime she gets excited. now that would just be splendid!

my luggage, having gone through the nazi-ok from my mum, is just a little less than the limit of 20kg, which is NOT ENOUGH. Seriously, i have no idea what else is in there that amounts my stuff to 20kg, except maybe the face products, which can comatose a person. Not kidding. And maybe the makeup, which has already, withered down to a measly few. Still can't find my favourite bronze lip gloss though, which really sucks!

oh man! i'm going to Japan!! how cool is that?! To think i was just in the planning stages months back and now, it's almost ready to fly. ARGH!

i planned to study Japanese on the plane, because i have this feeling that i got to sit through an entrance exam thingy once i've touched down but on more calculated foresight, perhaps it'll be better to sleep. because right after touchdown, i'll have payments, hateful hateful logistics, grocery shopping and orientation (no, not the freshmen kind but the i'm-in-a-new-place-let's-make-sure-i-don't-walk-into-a-wall kinda orientation).

And grey's anatomy's becoming an addictive itch!!

I'm leaving in LESS THAN 3 HOURS!! Oh my gosh!!!!!!

I hope that mum and dad will take care of themselves while we're not there to scold them; haha, not that we do anyway. Just figuratively speaking. And that the lizards WON'T visit!

And that touchdown won't be too messy and that SHIT WON'T HIT THE FAN!!

Argh! I'm going to japan!!